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With the world in turmoil as the coronavirus outbreak sweeps across Asia and threatens other continents, Christians in Wuhan, at the epicenter, are using the calamity to spread their faith. Their efforts deserve to be recorded as an exemplary example of Christian testimony. On February 11, The New York Times’ China correspondent Chris Buckley, who
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Last week, I noticed that Argentina is laying the groundwork to return to global debt markets. As a point of background, a decade and a half ago Argentina defaulted on a $100 billion obligation, the largest debt default in history. Then, in 2014, it happened again. We’ve become kind of immune to bad economic news
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Last week at my son’s baseball game, a memory stirred inside of me as I watched one of his teammates slide hard into second for a stolen base. This boy was the leadoff hitter, the fastest on our team. That day we wore our powder blue uniforms with a logo resembling the St. Louis Cardinals,
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There were no Stephen King novels in my home growing up. I’m not sure if this was because King’s writings were deemed unsanitary (by my mother) or low-brow (by my father). Whatever the case, over the years several of King’s novels found their way into my hands. Say what you will about the subject matter
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In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC
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Many of us continue to watch the tragedy of young Charlie Gard with a sick blend of sadness, anger, and pure horror. For those who don’t know, Charlie is an 11-month old infant suffering in a London hospital from a genetic disease. His parents raised $1.7 million to fight the illness, and had made plans
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